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Businesses are urging the B.C. government to capitalize on Ottawa’s offer to invest hundreds of millions to save threatened ecosystems in the run-up to the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal next month.
A total of 250 businesses are backing a resolution urging B.C.’s new Premier David Eby to stave off the extinction and climate crisis by backing the federal government’s 30x30 promise — to protect 30 per cent of the country’s land and waters by 2030.
Read moreTo date, 113 businesses - 104 based in BC - have signed a resolution calling on the BC government to help avert the extinction and climate crises and to benefit our health and the BC economy, by committing to at least meet Canada’s national and international protected areas targets (protecting 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030 of Canada’s land and marine areas). This includes protecting BC’s old-growth forests, and providing the necessary funding to do so.
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We've come a long way in this short time and have accomplished many important steps towards our mission to ensure the science-based protection of Canada's most endangered ecosystems, from old-growth temperate rainforests to grasslands, from southern deciduous forests to northern conifer forests - all supported by a modest budget.
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